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The Military Needs More Disruptive Thinkers

... social media and broad interaction with people not like us.  Adaptable strategy requires the ability to consider everything, not ... the business world failed to work in the military (anyone remember TQM, Quality Circles, Prometheus Effect, and all that other nonsense)? ...

Journal Article - Apr 5 2012 - 4:36am - 94 comments

Waterboarding is Torture... Period (Links Updated # 9)

... "If you ask Americans whether they think it's okay for us to waterboard in a controlled environment ... 90% of Americans will say ... waterboard you get all the magic answers you want -because remember, the subject will talk. They all talk! Anyone strapped down will say ...

Blog post - Oct 31 2007 - 2:30pm - 215 comments - 0 attachments

Irregular Warfare, Village Stability Operations and the Venture Capital Green Beret

... and elsewhere, Village Stability Operations are returning us to our Irregular Warfare roots. However, it is not the IW of the Cold War ... but the War on Oppression and how to win it. We must remember Special Forces was established by these very same nonconformists and ...

Journal Article - May 14 2012 - 4:42am - 56 comments

Memorial Day 2010

... We are organized, comrades, as our regulations tell us, for the purpose among other things, "of preserving and strengthening those ... Memorial Day Parade - Blackfive What We Remember on Memorial Day - Los Angeles Times Remember Who? - ...

Blog post - May 30 2010 - 5:08pm - 0 comments - 0 attachments

Dear Boss, I Don't Just Quit, I Give Up

... None of the other services can do their jobs without us. We bring policy options, capabilities, and alternatives to our Nation that ... into the air a lot faster than we think they can. If I remember right, they say the J-20 is going to be operational before 2020. I ...

Blog post - May 14 2012 - 4:55am - 41 comments - 0 attachments

Ten Points for the FM 3-24 Counterinsurgency Manual Conference

... defeat of some state with the intent to bring it under US governance). Casting support of someone else’s COIN as FID promotes ... was in the order of 5% of all present - and you have to remember that these people were the 'decision makers and influencers' - Comds, ...

Blog post - May 7 2012 - 5:12pm - 43 comments - 0 attachments

Bringing Real Life to American Strategy in Afghanistan

... a Strategy ” provides a realistic analysis of the US problem in AfPak. It points to a sensible conclusion. Unfortunately, the ... or thirty years from now, a generation of Afghans will remember how much better life was when the Americans were there. At that point, ...

Journal Article - Mar 3 2012 - 11:26am - 45 comments

Hazing is Simply Intolerable

... has brought to the forefront the issue of hazing in the US Army.  In April Marine Lance Corporal Harry Lew committed suicide after ... zapped -- and that hurts the unit. Everyone just has to remember that any such action has to be for the good of the unit -- if it is ...

Blog post - Dec 23 2011 - 1:44pm - 88 comments - 0 attachments

Remember the Sons of Iraq?

... Remember the Sons of Iraq? A Review of Michal Harari's SoI Briefing ... CIVILIAN WHO MANAGED THE COUNTRY...PLEASE POST- LTC, US Army Iraq/2005; Afgh/2003lHOA/2002 & 2008 Re: Remember the Sons of ...

Blog post - Nov 7 2010 - 2:16pm - 2 comments - 0 attachments

Reflections from the Valley’s Edge: A Year with the Pashtuns in the Heartland of the Taliban

... and may be impossible.  How do you assess the US efforts in creating sustainable self defense communities? It is an ... an amplifying example to compare your tour against. I remember when I was doing my dissertation for a Ph.D. in Political Science, ...

Journal Article - May 11 2012 - 6:05am - 25 comments